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For as long as I've been alive and longer, large industries like #irvingOil, #jdIrving, #repsol and others have paid - and I'm not overstating this - a penny on the dollar of their fair share.
Our politicians have signed **incredibly** generous 25 or 50 year contracts, absolving over a billion in taxes.
We have the highest child poverty, teen pregnancy, and sexual assault rates in the country.
Maybe it's time we balance the scales a little. Maybe we should tip them *a lot* and get back some of what we've lost. Build homes, feed kids, clean pollution, improve schools...
> "We're passing a budget that puts a 10 per cent increase on residential taxes," HIckey said. "Heavy Industry's getting a discount. That's a story none of us can tell enough."
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What do you expect when #COP28 already copped out? It was sold before it existed.
Can we stop giving the benefit of the doubt to the #oilExecs now? Yes? Thank you!
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/cop28-draft-agreement-fossil-fuels-1.7055398
#noBillionaires #noOligarchs #noColinization #noOil #noGas #JustStopOil #LANDBACK #noCPC #noUPC #noHiggs #noMoe #noSmith #vote #resist